GS Mains Model Question & Answer: Discuss social reform movements in colonial India contributed to modernization of Indian society. Comment

 GS Mains Model Question & Answer: Discuss social reform movements in colonial India contributed to modernization of Indian society. Comment

Q. Discuss social reform movements in colonial India contributed to modernization of Indian society. Comment

Model Answer:

Discuss social reform movements in colonial India contributed to modernization of Indian society?

Following are the reasons for them to modernise indian society :

a) They were influenced by modern ideas of humanism , rationality , scientific temper.

b) At the same time they wanted to preserve indian culture therefore their focuse was to modernise and not to westernise.

c) They wanted to reconstruct those values of indian culture that were not in sync with principle of rationality.

Followings are the initiatives to introduce modernisation .

a) Raja ram mohan roy's effort to attack brahmanical orthodoxy, idiolism, sati.

b) Ishwar chandra vidyasagar's successful attempt to introduce widow remarraige.

c) Dada bhai's propagation of women's right to inheritence of property.

d) Dayanand sarswati , jyotibha phule and many others were involved in promoting cause of women's education.

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